Agriculture constitutes a dominant land cover worldwide, and rural landscapes under extensive farming practices acknowledged due to high biodiversity levels. The High Nature Value farmland (HNVf) concept has been highlighted in the EU environmental and rural policies due to their inherent potential to help characterize and direct financial support to European landscapes where high nature and/or...

BACKGROUND Isolation, long work days, climate change and globalization are just some of the many pressures that make farming a vulnerable occupation for incurring mental health issues. The objective of this study was to determine whether farming in Australia is associated with poorer wellbeing, physical and mental health, and less health service use. METHODS The Australian Rural Mental Health...

The economical situation at agricultural industry has been changed rapidly in Korea for the last 40 years. The population in farming area decreased sharply and the labor demand increased dramatically. The portion of the old and women has been increased. The farm size, and farm rural wage have been increased. Those were the driving forces of the mechanization in agricultural industry. The Agricu...

Poverty has plagued many rural farming household in Nigeria. Despite several approaches adopted by Government to ameliorate poverty among its citizenry, the number of people living in impoverished condition has continued to rise. This study therefore aimed at assessing the poverty alleviation strategies used among farming household in Ondo State, Nigeria. A validated interview schedule and ques...

This article describes the extent of, and trends in, workrelated injuries and diseases in poultry farming in NSW, using new major claims data from the Workers’ Compensation Scheme over a nine-year period (1991– 1992 to 1999–2000) for the analysis. Poultry farming, which includes industries that produce poultry for meat and poultry for eggs, was the fifth largest rural industry in NSW in 1999–20...

Socio-economic improvement of rural people especially women is one of the challenges in Bangladesh. While integrated farming system is the potential area of working opportunity of the women to improve their socio-economic conditions. Considering this issue, this paper was to examine the improvement of socio-economic status of women with increased participation in so-called “Integrated Farming S...

Given the specific geographic and spatial location of rural areas in developing countries, to bring agrochemical to the rural farming households, it is argued, may have to come at a cost over and above the normal price it is sold in market. To this end, this work focuses on the willingness of rural farming households to pay more than the mean average regional retail price for agrochemicals in K...

This paper is motivated by the fact that (part-time) individual farming is commonly observed among rural households in a number of transition economies but it is not clear prima facie if such resource allocation is optimal. A conceptual model of household labor allocation between individual farming and off-farm wage employment is developed. The model explicitly accounts for the role of househol...

this study was conducted in delta state nigeria to establish a nexus between rural-urban migration and child labour. random sampling was applied to select rural settlements and this study covers 450 sample farming households. the results show that rural-urban migration influence child labour (p

This paper focuses on the role of scavenging poultry in integrated farming systems and is mainly based on previous studies and past research and development attempts to improve scavenging poultry in Ethiopia. Village poultry production is an integral part of a balanced farming system and has a unique position in the rural household economy, supplying high quality protein to the family. In this ...